Android offers more active users, exciting features and platform opportunities today than ever before, but app developers have never been more lost. Within the existing smartphone and tablet market, the OS landscape is fragmented between every Android version from Gingerbread to Lollipop, which currently holds little more than 3% of the pie. Now Google is … continue reading
Google recently released a report that provides insight into the Android’s security, revealing that it was able to cut the overall rate of potentially harmful application installs by 50% in 2014. “That’s why we built Android the way we did—with multiple layers of security in the platform itself and in the services Google provides,” wrote … continue reading
Although it’s become the world’s most popular mobile operating system, Android is still an expanding frontier—and developers are always the first to explore it. Android grew to 81.5% of the global smartphone market share in 2014, according to the International Data Corporation, passing a billion phone shipments for the first time. In terms of actual … continue reading
Microsoft has released a rough timeline of the upcoming features and capabilities on track for the release of Visual Studio 2015 and beyond. The tentative feature rundown for the company’s flagship developer IDE is below: More details are available on the Visual Studio blog. Google unveils Google Cloud Launcher Google has announced Google Cloud Launcher … continue reading
Interneer, Inc., a leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software for Smart Enterprise Apps, announced its decision to rename the company under the new corporate brand Intellect at the company’s 4th annual user conference, Intellect Innovate 2015. The name change to match its flagship product name, sets the foundation for the company’s branding efforts to … continue reading
Microsoft is unveiling a new cloud service designed to provide developers an easier way to build Web and mobile apps that support multiple platforms and devices. Azure App Service is an integrated solution that features capabilities from Azure Websites, Azure Mobile Services and Azure BizTalk Services. The solution includes Web apps, mobile apps, logic apps … continue reading
API software startup Apigee has filed for an initial public offering, which the company expects will be valued at US$86.3 million. Apigee’s API tools and enterprise management platform are in use by customers such as Adobe, AT&T, Dell and eBay. Apigee began the IPO process this January, and will be listed in the stock exchange … continue reading
Google has launched the Places API for Android as well as a beta program for the Places API for iOS. The release of these APIs is meant to provide developers with the ability to enhance their mobile experiences through device location signals. “People don’t think of their location in terms of coordinates on a map. … continue reading
This week’s GitHub project aims to provide an easy, fast and painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. Go Git Service, or Gogs, is a self-hosted Git service that is written in the Go programming language. “Officially, our purpose is to take the advantage of Go building everything into one binary to set … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Build Engine, the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio, is now available on GitHub. According to Microsoft program manager Rich Lander, the MSBuild sources that are being published on GitHub will be aligned with the version being shipped in Visual Studio 2015. In addition, the company plans to … continue reading
Oracle has introduced Oracle Data as a Service (DaaS) for Customer Intelligence at the South by Southwest conference in Austin. Oracle DaaS for Customer Intelligence is designed to unify social and enterprise service channels and unstructured data sources through the Oracle Data Cloud. It can also perform semantic analysis and natural language processing on the … continue reading
Ever since Apple launched its digital personal assistant Siri on iOS devices, companies have been trying to develop their own speech-recognition and natural-language-processing technologies. BlackBerry has the BlackBerry Assistant, Google has Google Now, and Microsoft has Cortana, for instance. The evolution of these virtual personal assistants started out as a way for these companies to … continue reading
